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10 TIPS TO FEEL BRILLIANT EVERY DAY If you live by these tips every day you will find increasingly that they give you a brilliant day. What I really love about them is that so long as you follow them they cannot not work. Try them for a week and see how it goes. Then if you feel better, it makes sense to carry on – and the longer you live by these the better you’ll progressively feel. WORDS DAVID HURST Z BE HUMBLE Celebrate, by all means, but resist being boastful. As writer CS Lewis said: "Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less." Connected to this is that if we realise we might have caused someone harm in some way, even if it was
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accidentally, that we should say sorry as soon as possible. Never say: “I’m sorry, but…” as we often then just go into why something happened the way it did, and it's likely to open it all up again. Humbly say sorry, draw a line under it – and then everyone can move on.
Z DON'T COMPARE YOURSELF TO
ANYONE ELSE Those celebrities and that friend may look to have it all, but we never really know the full picture. The only comparison is to check that you're making progress from where you once were.
